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I don't often recommend sites but I'm going to try Surf Canyon Content Farm Results Removal - I've been looking for a way to suppress various sites from google searches, I'm sick of having register-for-answers sites like "expert-exchange" to wade past. I have hopes this place does what it claims.
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Can you explain for the uninitiated what it's all about.
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Assume you want to be able to search on Google without ever seeing another link to Wikipedia come up in the results. Surf Canyon's Firefox add-on will let you say so. Every Google search afterward will have no Wikipedia links.

In my case I quite like Wikipedia links but I'm sick of quite a few other places. Being able to strip them out of all Google searches is very useful.
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Ah yes, of course it is, just another lazy reader here, actually looking at the link tells me that, I had not realised it was an Browser extension before I asked.
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I'm delighted to say it's got rid of bloody scribd.com for me as well. Hallelujah.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?
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SnoozeAgain;1355806 wrote: So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?


Scarcely. A porn filter stops a webpage from appearing on your screen if you click a link to it. This Firefox add-on prevents a webpage from appearing on a google search. I don't see they have a great deal in common.



eta: unless you mean Google SafeSearch Filtering?

The add-on lets you filter out unwanted material on any topic by domain name, it's very specific. SafeSearch is a scatter-gun. When I'm protecting a machine from porn I tend to use K9, again because it can be fine-tuned. They're all aimed at filling different needs. I'm using it to fine-tune searches on programming syntax and example code, for which there's a whole stack of pay sites trying to lure the unwary by catching their search terms.
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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I was being facetious, implying that you look at a lot of porn. Thank you for the explanation though.
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SnoozeAgain;1355806 wrote: So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?


What, in the sense that it filters out the bad porn and leaves you with the good stuff ?
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SnoozeAgain;1355813 wrote: I was being facetious, implying that you look at a lot of porn. Thank you for the explanation though.


It looked rather more as though you were implying I look at very little porn and sought a way to eliminate the unavoidable dribbles.

A sentence which could, on reflection, have been more tastefully expressed.
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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I am curious how they make their money.
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